Human Factors and Emergency Response

Sorry about the slightly misleading title, but I couldn't think of a better one.

Anyway,

This talk is about team leadership and uses as its example United Airlines Flight 232 which crashed at Souix City Airport after a compressor fan failure in one of its engines. The talk covers the incident with sufficient detail, before applying the actions of the crew to the topic of cockpit cooperation and team leadership. I've seen several documentaries about this incident, but this talk focuses on the relationships within the cockpit and how those relationships resulted in an unexpectedly good outcome. In fact, if it wasn't for a chance aerodynamic effect just 50 feet above the runway, the result might have even been better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=099cHWSbAL8:13

Thanks for posting that, OME. The teamwork lesson is applicable to far more areas than just flying or developing software. I'll be using this training resource in my organisation.